Improvement in the hounds of carriages



UNITED STATES IDATENT J OIIN MADDOCK, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE HOUNDS OF GARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,355, dated September24, 186i.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MADDOCK, of Dubuque, in the county of Dubuqueand State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful 11nprove ment inIVheel-Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure1 is a plan or top view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of thesame, taken in the line x Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twogures.

This invention relates to an improvement in the hounds ofwheel-vehicles, whereby the construction ot' the running-gear ofvehicles is greatly facilitated, considerable stui or stock saved, anddurability increased.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents thefront and Bthe back axle of a vehicle; O, the perch orreach, and D the draft-pole.

E represents the front hound, which is formed of asingle piece of Woodsteamed and bent so that its back part cl. will be of circular form, andits front part is formed of parallel ends b b, as shown clearly inFig. 1. The back end of the draft-pole E is fitted between the parallelparts l) b of the hound, and are secured in proper place by a bolt c.The hound E passes through the front axle A, and is firmly securedtherein bybolts d d, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and the frontbolster F and front axle are connected by akingbolt G, as usual. Thehound E thus con structed and applied answers, and, in fact forms, apart of the fifth-wheel of the vehicle.

H represents the back hound or brace ot the vehicle. This hound isformed ot' a piece of wood steamed and bent so as to form the greaterportion of a circle, as shown clearly in Fig. l. The ends c e of thishound pass between the back axle B and back bolster I, and the hound issecured between said axle and bolster by bolts ff. The front part ofhound H is connected to the reach C by a bolt g. By this arrangement itwill be seen that the running-gear of Wheel-vehicles may be constructedwith great. facility, as all the mortises and tenons required in theordinary hounds are avoided, while the hounds constructed according torny invention are exceedingly strong and durable, and may not onlyT beconstructed economically, but also applied to the vehicle veryexpeditiously at a small cost.

I do not claim,broadly, irrespective of con-

